These mountains are made of extremely dense and ancient material, giving scientists valuable clues about the Earth's early ...

A team of scientists have elucidated an ancient mechanism of cellular respiration. To that end, they studied bacteria that feed on the gases carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and turn them into acetic acid ...

A new study reveals that a mysterious human ancestors contributed 20% of modern human genes, potentially enhancing brain ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

The discovery of these skeletal remains rewrote Australia's history books. Decades later, they're at the centre of a court ...

AI is transforming archaeology, uncovering hidden geoglyphs and solving ancient mysteries at an unprecedented speed—offering ...

In 2005, an extraordinary discovery forever altered the way scientists approach the fossil record. Fossils of dinosaur bones ...

The research, by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration, shows both the intensity and polarization of the ...

New research by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, or ACT, collaboration has produced the clearest images yet of the universe’s ...

Scientists in Australia have made an exciting discovery—a 15-million-year-old fossilized freshwater fish that not only provides clues about ancient life but also has preserved stomach contents and ...

A team from the University of Cambridge has found that modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations.